Changes to the license models

OpenSSL License version 2 2026-09-24

changed Prohibition: Promote

was Prohibition: Promote

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The names "OpenSSL Toolkit" and "OpenSSL Project" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission."

OpenSSL License version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Rename

was Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Rename

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Products derived from this software may not be called "OpenSSL" nor may "OpenSSL" appear in their names without prior written permission of the OpenSSL Project."

OpenSSL License version 2 2026-09-24

added License: >

Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added SPDX identifier: "OGL-Canada-2.0"

Review finding The record carried no SPDX identifier although its title is word for word the SPDX name of OGL-Canada-2.0 and its cc:legalcode is the SPDX seeAlso URL. The text confirms the version: "This is version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence - Canada." Added.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Prohibition: Promote

was Prohibition: Promote

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Exemptions This licence does not grant you any right to use: * Personal Information; * third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to license; * the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider; and * Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks."

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

removed Prohibition: Add statement

Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

removed Prohibition: Share alike

Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution

Review finding dalicc:ModifiedWorks was missing although the freedoms list names modify, adapt and distribute in one sentence, so distributing a modified version is plainly granted. Added, which also aligns the record with OpenDataLicenceAgreement, the record of the same text issued by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must, where you do any of the above: * Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. * If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several information providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada."

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added Permission: Modified works

Review finding dalicc:ModifiedWorks was missing although the freedoms list names modify, adapt and distribute in one sentence, so distributing a modified version is plainly granted. Added, which also aligns the record with OpenDataLicenceAgreement, the record of the same text issued by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

was Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Derivative works, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Derivative works, with the duties Attribution

Review finding The licence requires two things and the record modelled one: "Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence." cc:Notice was missing. Added next to cc:Attribution on the cc:DerivativeWorks and odrl:distribute permissions.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Derivative works, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Derivative works, with the duties Attribution, Notice

Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must, where you do any of the above: * Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. * If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several information providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada."

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Commercial use

was Permission: Commercial use

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Using Information under this licence * Use of any Information indicates your acceptance of the terms below. * The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below."

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added License: >

Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added Alternative name: "Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0"

Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added Alternative name: "OGL-Canada-2.0"

Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added Reviewed on: "2026-09-15"

Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

Open Government Licence - Canada version 2 2026-09-24

added Review status: Reviewed

Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

added Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below (the freedoms and the conditions are word for word those of the parent OGL-Canada-2.0)." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

was Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

added License: >

Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

added Kind of variant: "edition"

Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

added Reviewed on: "2026-09-15"

Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

added Review status: Reviewed

Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

Open Data Licence Agreement version 2 2026-09-24

added Jurisdiction port of: Open Government Licence Canada

Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added SPDX identifier: "ODC-By-1.0"

Review finding The record carried no SPDX identifier although its title is word for word the SPDX name of ODC-By-1.0 and its cc:legalcode is the SPDX seeAlso URL. Added.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added Prohibition: Sublicense

Review decision Review decision 1: every Creative Commons record except the CC0 dedication, plus the Open Database License and the Open Data Commons Attribution License, forbids sublicensing in as many words.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Prohibition: Sublicense

was Prohibition: Sublicense

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not sublicense the Database."

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Prohibition: Promote

was Prohibition: Promote

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "This License does not cover any trademarks associated with the Database."

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

removed Prohibition: Promote

Manual edit The sentence the prohibition rested on, "This License does not cover any trademarks associated with the Database." (Section 2.3(c)), is silence about endorsement, which the default rule of the core dependency graph covers.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

removed Prohibition: Change license

Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, the Licensor grants to You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, terminable (but only under Section 9) license to Use the Database for the duration of any applicable copyright and Database Rights." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

Manual edit No sentence of the text asks for a notice of changes: Section 4.2 asks for a copy or the URI of the licence and intact notices, nothing more.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

was Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Contains information from DATABASE NAME which is made available under the ODC Attribution License." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Contains information from DATABASE NAME which is made available under the ODC Attribution License."

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Contains information from DATABASE NAME which is made available under the ODC Attribution License." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Contains information from DATABASE NAME which is made available under the ODC Attribution License."

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice

was Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

Manual edit No sentence of the text asks for a notice of changes: Section 4.2 asks for a copy or the URI of the licence and intact notices, nothing more.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

was Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Contains information from DATABASE NAME which is made available under the ODC Attribution License." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Contains information from DATABASE NAME which is made available under the ODC Attribution License."

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added Permission: Extract or reuse a substantial part of a database, with the duties Attribution, Notice

Manual edit Section 3.1 grants the rights "for the duration of any applicable copyright and Database Rights", and the licence defines Database Rights as the sui generis right of the Database Directive, so the permission is text-supported. The attribution and notice conditions of Section 4 apply to it as they apply to every use of the Database.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, the Licensor grants to You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, terminable (but only under Section 9) license to Use the Database for the duration of any applicable copyright and Database Rights." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

was Permission: Change license, with the duties Use a compliant license

Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Permission: Commercial use

was Permission: Commercial use

Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "These rights explicitly include commercial use, and do not exclude any field of endeavour."

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

removed Duty: Share alike

Review decision Review decision 9: the Open Data Commons Attribution License is attribution only and imposes no share-alike condition.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added License: >

Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added Reviewed on: "2026-09-15"

Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added Review status: Reviewed

Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

changed Warranty disclaimer: "The Database is licensed by the Licensor \"as is\" and without any warranty of any kind, either express, implied, or ar...

was Warranty disclaimer: " Open Data Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services of any kind. Open Data Commons has no formal r...

Review finding dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer did not hold a clause of the licence at all: it held the standard website disclaimer of opendatacommons.org, "Open Data Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services of any kind ...", which is the boilerplate printed above every licence on that site. Replaced with Section 7.1 of the licence, quoted verbatim, and Section 8.1 with 8.2 added as dalicc:LiabilityLimitation, which the record did not have.

Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 version 2 2026-09-24

added Limitation of liability: "Subject to any liability that may not be excluded or limited by law, the Licensor is not liable for, and expressly excl...

Review finding dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer did not hold a clause of the licence at all: it held the standard website disclaimer of opendatacommons.org, "Open Data Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services of any kind ...", which is the boilerplate printed above every licence on that site. Replaced with Section 7.1 of the licence, quoted verbatim, and Section 8.1 with 8.2 added as dalicc:LiabilityLimitation, which the record did not have.

ODC Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) version 2 2026-09-24

added SPDX identifier: "PDDL-1.0"

Review finding The record carried no SPDX identifier. Its cc:legalcode, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/, is the seeAlso URL of the SPDX entry PDDL-1.0, and the fetched document is headed "Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0". The proposal file rated this medium; the version in the document confirms it. Added.

ODC Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) version 2 2026-09-24

removed Prohibition: Promote

Manual edit No sentence was quoted for the prohibition. The text only says "This Document does not cover any trade marks associated with the Database." (Section 2.2(c)), which is silence about endorsement, and the default rule of the core dependency graph covers silence.